While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

While working with a Western band in Denver, Colorado, Atkins came to the attention of RCA Victor.

While singing with the Les Brown band and briefly with Bob Hope, Day toured extensively across the United States.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

While in England with The Byrds in the summer of 1968, Parsons left the band due to his concerns over a planned concert tour of South Africa, citing opposition to that country's apartheid policies.

In the middle of the show Bono delivered an emotional eulogy to Brood before the band performed " In a Little While ".

While performing in Macon, Georgia, having now changed their name to the Flames, a club promoter, Clint Brantley ( then agent of one of Brown's idols, Little Richard ), suggested the band add " Famous " in front of their name to draw more people to his club.

While attending Wilson High School, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson were in the Washington, D. C., punk band The Slinkees, which was soon renamed The Teen Idles.

While trying to find a suitable name, Mars remembered an incident which occurred when he was playing with a band called White Horse, when one of the other band members called the group " a motley looking crew.

While the band Korn is considered the pioneers of the nu metal genre, frontman Johnathan Davis stated: " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

While proving very popular in military band music, the saxophone is most commonly associated with jazz and classical music.

While in college, Crow sang in a local band, Cashmere.

While attending Timmins High and Vocational School in Timmins, she was also the singer for a local band called " Longshot " which covered Top 40 music.

While in California the band also performed live, and one gig at the Long Branch Saloon in Berkeley was later issued as a live album.

While UMTS2100 is the most widely deployed UMTS band, some countries ' UMTS operators use the 850 MHz and / or 1900 MHz bands ( independently, meaning uplink and downlink are within the same band ), notably in the US by AT & T Mobility, New Zealand by Telecom New Zealand on the XT Mobile Network and in Australia by Telstra on the Next G network.

While the music partially continued the punk-oriented style that was introduced on The Cult Is Alive, this time the band focused more on traditional heavy metal.

While recuperating, May was initially absent when the band started work on their third album, but he returned midway through the recording process.

While the band toured Japan in April, the band's manager, Jim Beach, successfully negotiated the band out of their Trident Studios contract.

While Modern Life Is Rubbish was a moderate success, it was Blur's third album Parklife that made them arguably the most popular band in the UK in 1994.

While touring Europe, Coppola was introduced to alternative filmmaking equipment and inspired by the bohemian spirit of Lanterna Film.

While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he spoke to John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate and his running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 Presidential election campaign.

While Baum was touring with The Maid of Arran, the theatre in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically-titled parlor drama, Matches, destroying not only the theatre, but the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including Matches, as well as costumes.

While in the Netherlands, people began touring the waterways connecting the 11 cities of Friesland, a challenge which eventually led to the Elfstedentocht.

While the crisis was building inside the Party, Roosevelt was touring Africa and Europe, to allow Taft to be his own man.

While the broadcast shows are recorded on location, this was the first ISIHAC touring stage show in the show's 35 year history.

Anna Pavlova arriving in The Hague in 1927 While touring in The Hague, Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation.

While touring in support of the album, relations within the band began to wear down.

While the band did covers, they also played some of Morrison's early songs, such as " Could You Would You ", which he had written in Camden Town while touring with The Manhattan Showband.

* While touring across the United States, the band members in the rock music " mockumentary " This Is Spinal Tap gather around Elvis Presley's grave at Graceland and sing a verse of " Heartbreak Hotel a capella in three-part harmony.

While touring Europe with La MaMa, Cuomo landed a recording contract with CBS France, left the troupe in 1971 and settled in Paris with several members of the original Misty Mountain Mormos — Sandy Spencer ( cellist ) and Tobia Taylor ( balalaika ).

While touring with La Barraca, García Lorca wrote his now best-known plays, the Rural Trilogy of Bodas de Sangre ( Blood Wedding ), Yerma and La Casa de Bernarda Alba ( The House of Bernarda Alba ), which all rebelled against the norms of bourgeois Spanish society.

While in Canada in October 1978 Franché Coma quit the band because he did not enjoy touring, and guitarist Rick Riley filled in temporarily to finish the tour.

While touring Sicily with Kay, who has arrived for Anthony ’ s operatic debut, Michael asks for her forgiveness.

While the album was initially unsuccessful, extensive touring and word-of-mouth promotion built the band a dedicated fanbase and helped Adrenaline to sell over 220, 000 copies.

While touring in the US, Mitch Mitchell was found dead on November 12, 2008 in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

While America remained a hot ticket on the touring circuit, they were unable to land a recording contract in the years after they left the Capitol label.

While vocalist Peter Garrett was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, he answered an advertisement for a spot in Farm, and by 1975 the band was touring the east coast.

While playing high school football, a stage manager from a touring theatrical stock company spotted him, and hired him as a bit player.

While touring, they often treated three random servicemen to dinner when they were dining out.

While touring in support of El Cielo, Dredg began work on their third album, Catch Without Arms, spending 8 months writing material before taking another 10 months to record and mix the album.

While touring with a stock company producing The Ship, Young was discovered by a MGM talent scout with whom he subsequently signed a contract.

While touring in the 1970s, the Destroyers and the Nighthawks happened to be playing shows in Georgetown ( DC ) at venues across the street from each other.

While touring with the latter album, during 2007 and 2008, Moya recorded several collaborations and guest vocals on albums by Iona, Joanne Hogg and with Grand Canal on Ireland's Official Olympic Anthem, " Green to Gold.